Author: admincatsg

Yesterday we hit a high of 59, yet last night around 11pm it had dropped down to 23. And this morning it was all of 17 degrees.

Today we never even got close to freezing. I think the warmest I saw was 24 today. Tonight we drop down again to around 20.

Tomorrow with any luck we should rise to 34. I’m hoping we actually get there.

To give you an idea of what today was like we even had light flurries. We had wind, from a light breeze to a stiff breeze. With the cold weather that meant our wind chills were down into the single digits. Even my dog didn’t want to go out. It was not a day to take a walk outside unless you were well dressed for the cold. Though we had to go out and I saw a woman in flip flops, no socks she was the exception. Most everyone was dressed in jackets, hats, scarves, warm clothing.

I expect tomorrow most people will be dressed similar to today – warm and bundled.

Well, last week was warm weather on the weekend. Today is now Tuesday and we have cold weather on the way. This past weekend was warm, nice weather. Today we have winter weather warnings. We had a high today of 59, but they’ve been warning about the cold weather coming in. It’s now 10pm and 32. We are going for a cool 21 tonight. The next 48 hours are set to get worse.

The weather channel says it’s 26 outside with a wind chill of 12 outside. I do believe them. It’s cold. And the wind has a true nip to it. A freezing cold nip.

Tomorrow, Wednesday should be 31 and 17. Thursday they are forecasting 35 and 24. Now obviously that doesn’t include the wind chill. Some areas are supposed to get down to wind chills in the minus figures. Now if you are in Montana the temps should be -5 tomorrow.

And the fun part. Next Monday we should be back in the 70’s.

We shall see what Mother Nature brings us.

They said we would get rain and we did. Not a lot, but the other night we got 2.12 inches of rain. It all occurred overnight, and the next morning it was blue skies. It’s been blue skies since. Today was so lovely we even ate lunch outside. We got up to 70 today. Monday we should be up to 80.

It’s been so warm they are saying next week will spend the days in the 80’s. A bit unseasonable I would say, but you never know if that’s entirely true. Nor how long that will last. But the forecast says by the middle of the week we’ll be back down into the 50’s for highs.

But since the weather has been nice, and we got rain, I’m expecting things will begin growing. We’ll see. Often February is one cold month, or at least has many cold spells. We’ll see what happens this year.

Yes, I know it has been a while since I wrote anything.Christmas has come and gone. The new year, 2025 has arrived. Yesterday was the inauguration of President Trump for a second term.

And our weather has gotten wonky.

Let me tell you what has happened. Jan 1 I left for CA to visit family and friends. I really needed to see my mom, I hadn’t seen her in quite a while. Overall it was a good visit. Then I spent a few days with friends, attended a wedding, etc. On Jan 5 we started the trek back home. Pasadena to Quartzite, on to Willcox, then into Las Cruces. As we progressed eastward the weather got colder. In NM, at Las Cruces we found ourselves facing snow, the possible ice. Honey, it got cold!! Instead of leaving the next day as planned, we spent a few days in Las Cruces. I had to go shopping for a jacket to make it thru the weather. I hadn’t planned on that much cold, so I didn’t have any good cold weather gear with me. We finally made it home Jan 12.

Right after we left Los Angeles, fires broke out. Pacific Palisades, Altadena exploded in fires. As of today PP has burned over 23,700 acres. Altadena (the Eaton fire) has burned over 14,000 acres. In addition there have been other fires, smaller fires. Even one near San Diego. Part of the problem has been the Santa Ana winds kicked up. They might be a bit late, the the Santa Ana’s always figure out how to show up.They are a wind weather phenomena in that region. And this year they managed to show up and spread fires, hamper firefighters, and change a landscape.

It is sheer chance that we managed to leave just before the fires broke out. We were supposed to stay a bit longer. But Reagan decided he had been gone long enough and he wanted to go home.

So just before fire broken, close to where we were staying, two blocks away they were under evacuation orders, we split for home. Just in time to hit freezing weather. It was a bit mad.

The good news was staying the extra time in Las Cruces worked to our advantage. We drove through El Paso on Saturday morning, traffic was light. We spent the night in Iraan, it puts the no in nowhere, then finished the drive home. We got home Sunday Jan 12.

Here it is about a week later and we have serious cold here in central Texas. South of where I am, down near Dripping Springs they got probably an inch of snow. Here in Central Texas we got just a bare whisper, little patches here and there. Yesterday we didn’t get a high of freezing, it was all of 30 degrees. Today we made it up to 37. Our region got hit with a cold front. It’s been cold, windy, and snowy in some areas. Even New Orleans got some snow.

Welcome to central Texas in the winter.

Yup, more strange weather. Today’s high should have been around 59, but we hit 81. It’s warm. It’s been such strange weather the other day, just before Christmas a tornado made a touchdown east of Waco. Yes, that was a confirmed tornado, in December, in central Texas.

And tomorrow, early morning, we are expecting thunderstorms. Christmas Eve we got hail. So it’s been some strange weather. One day is cold or cool, then the next day is warm.

And next week, the first week in January expected to be warm for this time of year.

Yeah. Texas.

No, Texas has not begun having earthquakes. But…a couple of days ago there was a large 7.0 off the coast of Cape Mendocino, California. Needless to say with that kind of size there have been rather continuous aftershocks. And today there was a 6.1 off Adak, Alaska. Granted that area of Alaska probably isn’t receiving that much damage, it is part of the island chain off Alaska. It’s closer to Russia/Soviet Union than the body of the USA. But it’s something I note since I check USGS, United States Geological Survey, pretty much daily.

Today when I pulled it up I noted that there have been so many earthquakes we have reached 505 quakes at my reading. Since lately it has only been about half that number, I found that noteworthy. Granted, that is earthquakes that have been 2.5 and larger, over the past week. But I find it interesting that we have suddenly begun having this large earthquakes. For reference, there have also been a 5.1 in Indonesia, a 5.1 in the East Pacific Rise (ocean), and a 5.6 in El Salvador all within the past week.

Yes, the earth works on its own time.

PS – And for the record, I just checked and the weather station in my back yard says we have hit 81 at 1:22pm. Make that 83 at 3:22pm.

And it is! We ate an early dinner tonight, done like 4pm, and were sitting on the covered, screened patio in the back. My boyfriend was on the phone to his daughter when the rain began as a light shower. We had gotten a little shower earlier today, all of 0.08″ of rain. Not exactly something to write home about.

As he was talking the rain became more of a more than light shower, but not what I’d call still much rain fall. When we went out it was 81 degrees outside, hot and humid. By the time it started to rain we had dropped to 77.

Than it began to rain. It began to pour. We went from 0.08″ to 2. 77″ of rain in well under an hour. The street outside is flooded, I’m sure many of the streets in town are flooded.

Are we done? I don’t think so. We are forecast to have rain for another half hour, than it should start up again tomorrow morning, early. Well, we did need rain. But I’m not sure these kind of downpours are what we would like. It will fill dams, but it is so much rain in such a short time it will lead to flooding.

Our weather is changing. Our weather patterns are changing. And not for the good.

It was only a couple of weeks ago, we were in west Texas, when Roswell, NM got flooded. People died. Roswell is desert area but they got so much rain so quickly they had flash floods. I’m hoping we don’t have that happen here. We’ll see.

UPDATE:

Rain has now hit 3.65 inches here at the house. This should be the last of the rain for today, but more rain is due tomorrow. Another problem we have is the weather. Tomorrow is due to get back up to 80, then a one day drop to 75, then back up to 80. And we’ll stay right around 80 degrees for about a week. Too hot for this time of year. The weather is not nice to us anymore.

It happened. The temperature dropped and we got rain. It wasn’t a lot of rain, but the other day we got half an inch of rain overnight. We got some before midnight, then rain continued after midnight. The total was 1/2 inch. That wasn’t a lot, but it was something. And they are saying more may be coming.

Today we high a high of 71, but this morning it was a low in the mid 40’s, 46 I think. A light jacket was in order walking the dog.

The forecast right now says a good chance for rain tomorrow and Friday. We’ll see what happens, but it’s nice to not have the heat.